unnecessary clearing of waterways, riparian zones and farmland for an overhead 500 kV line when alternative routes exist. The EIS fails to prove that using existing transmission corridors or undergrounding near sensitive areas is uneconomic. Fire hazard is exacerbated: overhead lines are more exposed to storms, wind damage and lightning. When these lead to faults, the chance of fire increases. Adding to that, aerial firefighting is severely constrained near high voltage infrastructural corridors due to safety distances—meaning by the time ground crews arrive, fire may be out of control. What mechanisms will guarantee rapid aerial response, and who will be liable if that fails due to the location of these lines?

HTP will obliterate productive farmland, sever waterways, and endanger safety. The EIS claims only 15‑25 properties will be affected, yet damage to soil, water table and downstream impacts affect many more. Overhead 500 kV lines are dangerous fire sources: a snapped insulator or lightning strike can ignite dry fuel. With lines overhead, aerial firefighting becomes risky or impossible under certain safety regulations. Global examples from Australia, California, Greece show that when fires ignite beneath or near powerlines, the result can be uncontrollable. If the government regards this project as essential, why is there no transparent modelling of worst‐case fire scenarios, including aerial suppression failure?

object to the HTP because it is predatory: it imposes harm on landholders for questionable public benefit. Farmland is being severed, waterways disrupted, shade and microclimate altered. Overhead 500 kV lines are not just unsightly—they pose health, fire, loss of property value issues. The project will limit aerial firefighting; in emergency conditions, aircraft cannot safely operate near high‐voltage lines. The EIS glosses over this risk. Transmission disasters globally illustrate the catastrophic consequences of lightning or conductor failure igniting fires that escalate rapidly. If the electricity grid is genuinely critical, why are no undergrounding or alternative alignments being seriously costed that avoid waterways and farmland, rather than forcing us into ruin?

In relation to the significant increase in traffic that will be travelling along Freeman’s Drive and the Cooranbong township, and the reported 300 workers using the local community. I am concerned about a number of issues. 1. The roads are already in less than acceptable condition with potholes and badly repaired potholes that reappear everytime there is rain. This will only get worse with this many vehicles travelling along the same route everyday. There is a section of road on Freeman’s Drive to the north of where the 90 zone begins heading out of Cooranbong where the water pools considerably on both sides of the road and many potholes develop making it very dangerous for traffic when heavy rain occurs as you have to drive in the middle of the road to avoid these hazards. This section of road will become more dangerous with increased traffic and needs to be dealt with. 2. The intersection at Avondale rd is already a major safety hazard with school and Watagan Park traffic. With the increase in traffic for such a long period of time while this project is going this intersection will more so be at risk of serious injury to children crossing or local vehicle occupants without long awaited traffic control. Martinsville rd intersection will also become a hazard if traffic controls not established. 3. Our property and house front onto Freeman’s drive only a short distance from where these workers will be coming and going each day, I am concerned about the significant increase in noise at these times (reported to be around 6-7am and 4-6pm). Having up to 300 utes, trucks etc going by on a bumpy road at these times will potentially be a large disruption to our lives particularly in the morning, not to mention the visual disturbance of that many extra vehicles going by at these times. I would like to request compensation/ mitigation in the form of appropriate hedging to our property boundary running along Freeman’s Drive to help dampen the noise and hide the visual/ privacy impact from this significant increase in traffic at these times, considering the project will be going for at least 2.5 years. Feel free to contact me for further info/ discussion.

Using China’s Slave Labour Supply Chain components for this unnecessary and unethical plan is shamefully unethical and wrong.

Dodgy ENERGY CO’s deeply unethical procurement rooted in exploitative foreign labour, makes every tower a symbol of human misery and corruption.

Put this junk in the backyards of the confused woke city fools who voted for this garbage. NOT rural in communities

Bulldozing breeding grounds for endangered species like Littlejohn's Tree Frog and precious biodiversity for unnecessary CCP controlled infrastructure exposes the grotesque hypocrisy of these "green" carpetbaggers.
It’s eco-vandalism with a sabotaging agenda.

All renewable energy infrastructure is absolute destruction on our communities.

I object to all things pertaining to renewable energy.

I hereby object to this project